Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah)

Bukhari :: Book 7 :: Volume 62 :: Hadith 22

Narrated Anas:

The Prophet stayed for three days between Khaibar and Medina,
and there he consummated his marriage to Safiyya bint Huyai. I
invited the Muslims to the wedding banquet in which neither meat
nor bread was offered. He ordered for leather dining-sheets to be
spread, and dates, dried yoghurt and butter were laid on it, and
that was the Prophet's wedding banquet. The Muslims wondered, "Is
she (Saffiyya) considered as his wife or his slave girl?" Then they
said, "If he orders her to veil herself, she will be one of the
mothers of the Believers; but if he does not order her to veil
herself, she will be a slave girl. So when the Prophet proceeded
from there, he spared her a space behind him (on his she-camel) and
put a screening veil between her and the people.